bookelly wrote:Indians because it's gonna take them longer than anyone to recover. They won't contend for 5 years now. Just depressing.

My thought as well.When you suck in the NFL and NBA, you have a chance to draft yourself out of it.In the MLB, the draft is more of a crapshoot and it can take years to develop kids in your farm system. Turning it around in the MLB means either having a farm system full of near-ready players where you can either bring them in to supplement your big league team and become good, or a farm system where you have value enough to trade for solid pieces. As far as the system goes, it appears we have no sign of hope. To me, its a miracle we were ever in the picture this year, especially into July.

Our cornerstone guys are:Brantley .291 BAChoo .278 BAACab .274 BAKipnis .255 BAAnd there is no HR production anywhere in sight.That's not exactly a nucleus that puts fear into many contenders. These guys are only solid supplementary pieces. Heck, in '95 the Tribe had 6 guys bat over .308.

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go." -- Winston Churchill

It has hurt so much lately to be an Indians fan. My Mom got me hooked on baseball when I was eight so I've been through more wars than probably most of you, but it's hurting more and more each time they have to go through a rebuild - probably because of the diminishing chances of me seeing a championship. Although I spend limited time following minor leagues or off-season news I live and breathe baseball from spring training to last pitch.

Cavs were fun to follow when they were going places - mostly because our daughter has always enjoyed basketball and it was our way to talk sports. Browns moved the year our son started playing varsity FB in sophomore year. When they came back we were moving so it was hard to keep up with learning a entire new team and roster. Wasn't as much fun either after watching kids play the game just for the love of it instead of the big dollars.

I'll keep following these pathetic losers in hopes that they either get really lucky and win something big - or that somehow, someway Dolan is convinced to sell to a person interested in winning games rather than big bucks.

I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.~~~Annie Savoy-"Bull Durham"

As much as it makes sense to vote the Tribe on this, I grew up watching the Indians in the 70's and 80's. A season/team like this is nothing new and wouldn't make you bat an eye if it were 1984

I'd have to vote Browns. 6 games of nothing but field goals in todays NFL is truly pathetic

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

Tribe. Like Peeks said, it's every effing night. You get another chance to be depressed over how pathetic they look every single day. You eagerly await off days so it's one of the three days of the month that they can't lose.

The Browns only suck once a week and I couldn't care any less about the Cavs.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

FUDU wrote:I was a never a believer in the Tribe this season, so I cannot say they were overwhelmingly depressing, it was some what anticipated.

Then you failed to understand the significance of The Best Run Farnchise in Cleveland's (TM) off season moves positioning us for a wild card and maybe ALCD title with the Best Rotation in The Division (TM) .